To John Douglas Sutherland Campbell (Lord Lorne)
20 May 1883 • 2nd of 2
(MS, draft telegram, in pencil: CU-MARK, UCCL 04069)

I make limitless apologies[.] ‸for my delay.‸ Your telegr lordship’s telegram reached me at second hand through the telephone & was most confusingly reported. After long delay it has come to me ‸correctly & lucidly‸ in manuscript form, & the mystery I hasten to accept your lordship’s kind invitation & say I shall do myself the honor to report in Ottawa

Wainwright

Dawson

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Source text(s):

MS, draft telegram, in pencil, CU-MARK. Clemens drafted this telegram on the back of a telegram from he received from Samuel E. Dawson, who was forwarding a message from Lord Lorne, 19 May 1883, CU-MARK, UCLC 50420.

Previous publication:

MicroML, reel 5.

Provenance:

see Mark Twain Papers in Description of Provenance.

Emendations and textual notes:

. • [deletion implied]